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Topic: Arranger and Composer Tags (Read 4845 times)

Under Track Info or Properties can someone add Arranger and Composer Tags (or whatever tags are available), please? And if there are not filled in, it just disappears, that way you don't just see an empty box. The only way to see who composed a song right now is to go to Database>Composers>"Name of Composer", which is very time-consuming.

I would appreciate it.

Thanks.

Edit: Actually, you can use the context menu, and use "open with...", and select "Viewer", and at the beginning of the file you'll see the tags, however getting this done is obviously preferred.

The only way you can get a yes answer is if someone is already working on it. The only way to get a no answer is if your idea if impossible or not allowed for some reason. Both of these are unlikely, so you're getting the third option "maybe if someone ever decides to add it".

I've just added patch FS#11313 to provide composer on the track info screen.

It shows at the bottom but if you scroll up it's visible easily. I would have added it after "Artist" but that involved changing all the other tags so I just kept it simple.

Composer is a standard ID3 tag and present in the lower level ID3 code in Rockbox. Arranger is not currently there and I'm not sure what ID3 tag it would match up with. I checked on Wikipedia and arranger wasn't listed as a standard tag. So I could make a patch for it but it would be more complex since it needs lower level code and I'd need to know what ID3 tag it should connect to.

Thanks a lot! The most useful is the composer tag anyways. Great work! Update: thanks to jd gordon for accepting the patch in r26409, and even more thanks to Chris Savery for making the patch and modifying it to be accepted and working optimally.